posted at 6:01 pm on February 12, 2014 by Allahpundit

After writing so many posts criticizing Rubio for immigration reform, I figured I’d do him a solid and remind the buyer’s-remorse crowd that it could have been worse.

Has Crist made this charge before? He’s been asked about the hug ad nauseam for the last four years — it features in his new book too, of course — but a cursory Google search for 2011, 2012, and 2013 reveals no racial conjecture. Could be I missed it, but you’d think if he had said this earlier, it wouldn’t be hard to find on a search engine. Ed tells me that a Nexis search for those years produces no results either. For a guy who’s supposedly spent lots of time pondering the dire state of the GOP, he seems to have reached this conclusion only recently, coincidentally at a moment when he’s running for governor again as a Democrat. Fancy that.

There’s probably an internal poll showing that some Florida Democrats don’t trust his commitment to The Cause and so Crist concluded that a little MSNBC-style demagogic flourish was called for to convince them. He is, as Dave Weigel says, a man with no ideology beyond “elect Charlie Crist.” How do you get lefties excited about a guy like that? Here’s your answer. Although, honestly, it’s probably unnecessary: According to a Quinnipiac poll released two weeks ago, he already leads Rick Scott by eight points thanks to heavy support from Dems. Black Democrats in particular support Crist to the tune of 76/10. I thought that his third-party run in 2010, which cost Democrat Kendrick Meek any chance of upsetting Rubio in the general, would have left some hard feelings, but nope. Give the man credit: He may be a soulless careerist who represents everything that’s wrong with politics, but he knows how to pander. He’s been praising Obama at every opportunity for the past year or two to build Democratic cred. This smear is icing on the cake.

By the way, note that his list of white Democratic presidents who were treated better than O doesn’t include the guy whom the GOP actually impeached. Exit question: If hugging Obama is the kiss of death, why does Tom Coburn remain a beloved figure on the right and a conservative in very good standing? Coburn’s praised O as a “wonderful man” and copped to writing him notes when he first took office to encourage him in the job. That’s a far more meaningful personal endorsement than Crist giving Obama a pat on the back at some event in his home state, but Coburn never had any political problems because of it. The hug killed Crist not because he was nice to O but because it resonated with the charge that he stands for nothing, a charge that quickly proved correct after he was overtaken by Rubio and quit the party. You could never make a charge like that stick with Coburn. Click the image to watch.

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He’ll say anything which means when ever he speaks he’s lying. Republicans here in Florida could give a rat’s behind about him hugging Obama, it had far more to do with him being a dupicitous snake in the grass.

Did you know that numerous close friends of Charlie have pleaded guilty to various crimes to avoid going to trial? Now one of them has said that Crist was selling judicial nominations. Crist is sure at home in the Democrat Party. Corrupt parasites.

Above all else, leftists are propagandists. The “Extreme GOP Forced Me to Switch Parties” meme is too valuable to the left to worry about his motives and insincerity. Colin Powell now has an open invitation on any show he wants. No one outside of conservative blogs knows who Artur Davis is.

And he’ll probably win cause the voters down here are dumber than orange peels.

Watch him cave in to Angela Corey of Zimmerman fame and SYG will go down the tubes along with 2A…hey…a demrats got to do what they do best…ignore the constitution…for the chillen of course. He’ll be dating Debbie does Omaba to before long. When she endorses him…it’s over.

In December I drove down the Turnpike from Wildwood to Ft Lauderdale. There was a Morgan & Morgan billboard with this scum’s face on it at least every 5 miles until we got south of the I-4 corridor. I wanted to stop and set every one of them on fire.

Tom Corbett in PA and Rick Scott in FL are the two most unpopular Governors in the whole country.

Easy pickings for Democrats in 2014.

Why will Dems forgive Charlie Crist and vote him in? Because he will extend early voting in FL with executive order as he did in 2008. Guess what, Hillary will want that in 2016.

Don’t forget, now Charlie Crist is fully a part of Clinton machine. Crist raised money for Terry McAuliffe last year and now Terry and Bill Clinton will return him the favor.

Tom Corbett in PA is sure loser, Terry McAuliffe in already Governor of Virginia and if Crist wins in FL as polls indicate, there will be a lot of early voting in 2016. Hillary will definitely want that in these 3 crucial battleground states.

Exit question: If hugging Obama is the kiss of death, why does Tom Coburn remain a beloved figure on the right and a conservative in very good standing? Coburn’s praised O as a “wonderful man” and copped to writing him notes when he first took office to encourage him in the job. That’s a far more meaningful personal endorsement than Crist giving Obama a pat on the back at some event in his home state, but Coburn never had any political problems because of it.

In December I drove down the Turnpike from Wildwood to Ft Lauderdale. There was a Morgan & Morgan billboard with this scum’s face on it at least every 5 miles until we got south of the I-4 corridor. I wanted to stop and set every one of them on fire.

Tom Corbett in PA and Rick Scott in FL are the two most unpopular Governors in the whole country.

Easy pickings for Democrats in 2014.

The Republican establishment brand going down again.

Time for the stupid party to stop being dupes for the Chamber of Commerce, and nominate normal people who appeal to a larger part of the voting public. Who wants to vote for people who help export jobs and import 3rd world cheap labor?

Trust me, there’s a reason a sitting governor loses and election in
Crist’s case it certainly wasn’t hugging the black President, it was hugging his policies. Crist was talking about putting in an energy tax and embracing the green agenda, among other things. Personally, I believe he could have gotten away with the hug.

This just shows how far Crist will go to get elected. He is not a trustworthy man, which makes him a much better Democrat than Republican anyway. I don’t believe the Democrats are making a wise decision here, but I really don’t carebecause I’m going to vote for Scott anyway.

“I’ve seen a level of vitriol directed at this president that I have never seen directed at President Kennedy or maybe President Johnson or even President Carter,” he said.

See, Crist just doesn’t like Americans complaining about Barack Obama’s hideous politics and lawless activities from the Presidency. Crist expected a silent majority, not one that complains and actually speaks out about it.

Let’s all agree that Barack Obama has DNA. Don’t we all? Crist just can’t stand it that Obama’s a very, very unethical, if not incompetent, President and that Americans are displeased with that. I don’t hear anyone complaining about Obama’s DNA but about his unethicality.

Tom Coburn remain a beloved figure on the right and a conservative in very good standing? Coburn’s praised O as a “wonderful man” and copped to writing him notes when he first took office to encourage him in the job.

I now question Tom Coburn. Not for any hug but because of this:“Coburn’s praised O as a “wonderful man”… (and) to encourage him in the job.”